Nobody cares : essays

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  • Auteur: Donahue, Anne T.
    Résumé:

    'The internet's best friend.' ' Flare From the author of the popular newsletter That's What She Said, 'Nobody Cares is a frank, funny personal essay collection about work, failure, friendship, and the messy business of being alive in your twenties and thirties. As she shares her hard-won insights from screwing up, growing up, and trying to find her own path, Anne T. Donahue's debut book offers all the honesty, laughs, and reassurance of a late-night phone call with your best friend. Whether she's giving a signature pep talk, railing against summer, or describing her own mental health struggles, Anne reminds us that failure is normal, saying no to things is liberating, and that we're all a bunch of beautiful disasters ' and she wouldn't have it any other way.

    Contents:
    • Anxiety, you lying bitch
    • In case of emergency
    • I'll read your cards
    • Near, far, wherever you are
    • Work, bitch
    • Failing upwards
    • Things I have not failed (but quit proudly)
    • "Why don't you drink?"
    • It's called fashion, look it up
    • Just do what I say
    • Friendship mistakes I have made (so you don't have to)
    • But, for the record: I am not fun
    • The least interesting thing
    • While in the awful
    • That guy / (TM)
    • How I learned to stop worrying and love One Direction
    • Icebreakers: a guide to making a real splash at a party
    • An Anne for all seasons
    • Burn it down
    • Get to work
    • It will never feel this bad again
    • Hometown glory.
    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Humour
    Subject(s): Canadian wit and humor
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Ont. , ECW Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781773052595

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    1773052594

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    9781773052601

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    1773052608

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Abstract

'The internet's best friend.' ' Flare From the author of the popular newsletter That's What She Said, 'Nobody Cares is a frank, funny personal essay collection about work, failure, friendship, and the messy business of being alive in your twenties and thirties. As she shares her hard-won insights from screwing up, growing up, and trying to find her own path, Anne T. Donahue's debut book offers all the honesty, laughs, and reassurance of a late-night phone call with your best friend. Whether she's giving a signature pep talk, railing against summer, or describing her own mental health struggles, Anne reminds us that failure is normal, saying no to things is liberating, and that we're all a bunch of beautiful disasters ' and she wouldn't have it any other way.

Genre
Canadian nonfiction
Essays
Humour
Subject
Canadian wit and humor
Publisher (Source)

Toronto, Ont.

ECW Press

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